Philosophies

Programming Paradigms

To keep within the paradigm, you have to put effort into the organization
of code, as opposed to writing a program consisting of a 30000 line main() function

Common Programming Paradigms

Structured Programming
Object Oriented Programming
Extreme Programming

Code Reuse

LOC LOC LOC : As few as possible!!!

(Error checking removed for clarity)

            n = (struct node *) malloc(sizeof struct node);

            t = headnode;
            while (t) { 
                t = t->next;
            }
            t->next = n;
            n->next = NULL;
 --- OR ----
            n = newnode();
            t->add(n);

A fix in one place can be a fix in multiple places
Small, easily verifiable chunks of code

Clean, neat code -- strive for a work of art (ooohh, ahhhh), with plenty of comments